All Discussions Tagged 'green' - Atheist Nexus2015-08-02T21:16:57Zhttp://atheistnexus.org/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=green&feed=yes&xn_auth=noReligions seen slow to go green; Pope has chance (LMAO) to inspire... - Reuters for the win.. trust.org wow~tag:atheistnexus.org,2013-06-20:2182797:Topic:22559172013-06-20T12:57:28.644ZAgeOfAtheists14http://atheistnexus.org/profile/secularorbust
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<p>"Religious environmentalism is slowly increasing," said John Grim, a coordinator of the forum on religion and ecology at Yale University in the United States. "It's very uneven. Religions tend to be very conservative in their practice and doctrine."</p>
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<p>SAFEGUARD THE EARTH</p>
<p>Grim said the pope's influence was…</p>
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<p>"Religious environmentalism is slowly increasing," said John Grim, a coordinator of the forum on religion and ecology at Yale University in the United States. "It's very uneven. Religions tend to be very conservative in their practice and doctrine."</p>
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<p>SAFEGUARD THE EARTH</p>
<p>Grim said the pope's influence was significant since few other religions recognise a single earthly leader - and there are 1.2 billion Catholics, amounting to a sixth of humanity, according to the Vatican.</p>
<p>In his inaugural homily, Pope Francis stressed that people should safeguard the Earth.</p>
<p>"Let us be 'protectors' of creation, protectors of God's plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment. Let us not allow omens of destruction and death to accompany the advance of this world!" he said.</p>
<p>In a 2010 book "On Heaven and Earth", when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires, he said mankind sometimes lost respect for nature. "Then ecological problems arise, like global warming."</p>
<p>Some religions have been reluctant to be associated with climate change policies because of divisions among believers. A 2012 Pew Research Center poll showed that only 42 percent of Americans agree global warming is mainly man-made, a view overwhelmingly held by climate scientists, for example.</p>
<p>The Church of England says it aims to cut its carbon emissions by 42 percent by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050 across widely varying energy use in 16,000 buildings, but it is an exception.</p>
<p>"Some churches are used all week and others used very occasionally, with only one light bulb," said David Shreeve, environmental advisor to the Archbishops' Council. He said other religions were now asking for advice on emissions cuts. Irrespective of climate change, big savings can be made by plugging draughts and improving heating and lighting.</p>
<p>Some believers object that solar panels can damage or disfigure fragile historic buildings. Some cathedrals, like the Catholic Saint Stephens in Vienna, have elaborate patterns on the roof.</p>
<p>Bradford Cathedral, where the oldest parts of the Nave date from 1458, installed solar panels in 2011 and said it was the first cathedral in England - and perhaps in the world - to generate its own power.</p>
<p>Among other examples, a planned mosque in Bursa, west Turkey, aims to use solar panels and install a vertical axis wind turbine - without big revolving blades - on a minaret.</p>
<p>"Mosques ... can be covered with photovoltaic panels," the mosque's architect ?elik Erengezgin said.</p>
<p>Green initiatives by religious leaders and groups are not new.</p>
<p>The Jewish Temple Emanuel in Lowell, Mass., installed solar panels in 1978 in what is believed to be the first such system on a religious building in North America, the Lowell Green Building Commission says.</p>
<p>And Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, has long been called the "Green Patriarch" for seeking to protect the environment, from organising conferences about fresh water to writing an encyclical in 2012 urging repentance for "our sinfulness in destroying the world".</p>
<p>Saint Francis has long been a green inspiration.</p>
<p>In what are known as the Assisi Declarations from 1986, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish and Islamic leaders called for people to live in harmony with nature. Baha'i, Jainism and Sikhism later added their own declarations.</p>
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<p>In the United States, many evangelical Christians stress a broad need for "stewardship of <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>creation</strong></span>", &lt;-that's the fail silly!!!!!<br/>rather than man-made climate change, as a spur to action.</p>
<p>Many evangelical Christians are Republicans who are more likely than Democrats to doubt that climate change is mostly caused by human activity, such as burning fossil fuels.</p>
<p>"Americans allow their politics to inform their faith," said Katharine Hayhoe, an evangelical Christian and climate scientist at Texas Tech University</p> Tesla < charger expansion_ NY LA for free~?!tag:atheistnexus.org,2013-05-31:2182797:Topic:22433222013-05-31T04:21:31.377ZAgeOfAtheists14http://atheistnexus.org/profile/secularorbust
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<p>after you bought one or do payments i presume.. but yes finally!<br/><a href="http://www.atheistnexus.org/profiles/blogs/tesla-motors-that-is-ny-to-la-for-free-dramatic-expansion-of">http://www.atheistnexus.org/profiles/blogs/tesla-motors-that-is-ny-to-la-for-free-dramatic-expansion-of</a></p> A book recommendation for youtag:atheistnexus.org,2012-11-07:2182797:Topic:20959242012-11-07T21:04:14.747ZPatrickhttp://atheistnexus.org/profile/Patrick109
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I've been interested in Spirituality for a long time, almost all my life and being raised in a Catholic home it seemed pretty one sided with the way the church was making it all seem like. I could never truly connect to the religion and have been on the look out for something that I could feel inside; that's what or how I want my spiritual journey to look like.So for a while I was pretty much Atheist, I didn't believe in anything, but my self. This were hard, and of course I was…</p>
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<p>I've been interested in Spirituality for a long time, almost all my life and being raised in a Catholic home it seemed pretty one sided with the way the church was making it all seem like. I could never truly connect to the religion and have been on the look out for something that I could feel inside; that's what or how I want my spiritual journey to look like.So for a while I was pretty much Atheist, I didn't believe in anything, but my self. This were hard, and of course I was always on the prowl for something that might help me. After many years, I have stumbled onto a book named: "Master and the Green Eyed Hope" and it basically set me free in a way you can only feel, not explain. Moments in the book I began to feel how I've never really felt before. I began to feel whole, with some sort of philosophy or ideas that I understood and could relate to. Unlike some of the religious prospectives' or even some of the new age stuff out there. So i have decided that I want to recommend it to as many people as possible because when I read it, it changed my life and I became a completely new person. I read what world wide renowned experts said about the book and I agree with them, this book reads like an amazing adventure and ``This is at once a fun novel, a creative fiction, a scientific journey and a true life story``. A true Gem!! Here's a few links if you guys are interested:</p>
<p>Amazon Kindle Version<br/><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008R454RA/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_tmb">http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008R454RA/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_tmb</a></p>
<p>Smash Words<br/><a href="http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/209751">http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/209751</a></p>
<p>Authonomy where you can see what over 250 other people thought of the book as well as some of the book for free:<br/><a href="http://authonomy.com/books/22837/master-and-the-green-eyed-hope/">http://authonomy.com/books/22837/master-and-the-green-eyed-hope/</a></p>
<p>And the blog where you can find 3 chapters free:<br/><a href="http://thechamberof7powers.blogspot.ca/">http://thechamberof7powers.blogspot.ca/</a></p>
<p>I've read a lot of books on this subject or rather in broad broad subject and views on all kinds of spirituality and I have yet to find anything that has made such an impact on my life. I hope at least you guy can check it out!</p>
<p>Cheers!</p>
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<p>P.S. In the book there is mention of the so called "God"-figure but it is an approach that might be very interesting to the people here. Let me know what you guys think!</p> Northern Gateway opponents gather 3,500-strong for protest at B.C. legislaturetag:atheistnexus.org,2012-10-24:2182797:Topic:20854212012-10-24T04:41:32.236ZAgeOfAtheists14http://atheistnexus.org/profile/secularorbust
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<p>I happened across a newspaper article from the Liberty Tribune in Liberty, MO from June 17, 1853. The article talks of an anti-Bible convention that took place in Hartford, CT. Here is the text of the article:</p>
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<p><font size="2">We did design to pass over in silence this puerile gathering at Hartford. A friend, however, suggests that some notice of their sayings would supply a desirable key to the men…</font></p>
<p>I happened across a newspaper article from the Liberty Tribune in Liberty, MO from June 17, 1853. The article talks of an anti-Bible convention that took place in Hartford, CT. Here is the text of the article:</p>
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<p><font size="2">We did design to pass over in silence this puerile gathering at Hartford. A friend, however, suggests that some notice of their sayings would supply a desirable key to the men and women - aye, women save the mark!-who are mumbling their aversion to a book which being inspired of God is therefore pure, and holy, and practicle in its teachings, and has become a stone of stumbling in their path. We propose, in compliance with the suggestion, to cull some of their insane ravings, taking our extracts from the report of the Herald.</font></p>
<p><font size="2">The first speaker was Andrew Jackson Davis, who being the professed author of a book impiously styled "Revelations"is scarcely to be considered an impartial witness. The more the Bible is diffused and read the less Mr. Davis' book be sold and the more will his idle dreamings be contemned and dispised. Hear him:</font></p>
<p><font size="2">"The speaker went on to deny the authenticity of the Bible and the Christian religion. We pray for work and for liberty, continued he, for human love and the kingdom of Heaven upon earth, which must necessarily come after all sectarianism is forgotten. In conclusion, I would say we should free ourselves from the sectarianism of the church, free ourselves from the mythology of the Bible, and free ourselves from the chains of superstition and bigotry. Reason, reason is the sovereign of the soul, and truth is the sovereign of reason."</font></p>
<p><font size="2">Mr. William Green was appointed chairman. His sentiments are worthy of the Convention:</font></p>
<p><font size="2">"Truth is indestructible, error alone can be destroyed. I am an atheist. If rum-selling is wrong, if slavery is wrong, if war is wrong, and if you believe in a God that sanctions such things, I do not. He is not my God. If government can be overturned by reason and argument, let it be overturned. If the gentleman who wishes to prove I am a monkey, or a tiger, let him do so. I am content. If he will prove me a devil, very well. I am content to go to hell; for I want to go where I belong. Let us be plain spoken. I intend hereafter to speak of Jesus and other personages in the Bible, and I mean to do as a man, and if you won't permit me, I will - that's all. I believe some things in the Bible to be historical, and metaphysical, and moral. They will stand, but I shall attack which I believe to be immoral. I have no respect for it as a book, and I shall reject what I conceive to be untrue and uphold what I think is true. I shall sit in judgement upon Jesus of Nazareth as a man accountable to be the same laws that I a, liable to be mistaken, as I am, and to be tried in the judgement day with me; therefore, in reviewing what he said and did, I shall judge him as I think fit. I don't care that, (snapping his fingers) for I am a man."</font></p>
<p><font size="2">A Mr. Wright offered the following resolution:</font></p>
<p><font size="2">"Resolved, that the Bible, in some parts of the Old and New Testament, sanctions injustice, concubinage, prostitution, oppression, war, plunder, and wholesale murder; and therefore the doctrine that the Bible, as a whole, originated, is false and injurious to the social and spiritual growth and perfection of man."</font></p>
<p><font size="2">His speech, however, was but an echo of his resolution, not the slightest attempt to demonstrate its truth seeming to have entered his mind. The chairman followed, with more of his reckless blasphemy. He must be the pink of the infidels. He said:</font></p>
<p><font size="2">"The Bible contains the strangest, the wildest, the most childish, and the most blasphemous represenations of God that ever entered into the mind of man. God is represented as eating, drinking, and depending upon reports from his servants, as to what is going on in the world; for instance, in the case of Sodom and Gomorrah, He is made to say that He will go down and see for himself.</font></p>
<p><font size="2">"We insist that this book gives us a slanderous and blasphemous representation of the character and being of God, and there is nothing wicked, base and cruel in man, that God is not represented as doing. The Bible sanctions polygamy, concubinage, theft, conjugal infidelity, bloodshed, and murder. Theologians condemn the Mormon Bible, but it is far less vicious than the Christian.</font></p>
<p><font size="2">Readers will, from these extracts, judge of both the intellectual and moral calibre of members of this convention, and will see that we were abundantly justified in expressing the hope that the friends of the inspired volume would not give them importance by entering into conflict with them. Such are not the men to impede the circulation of the holy scriptures, or to destroy confidence in their truthful inspiration, - not a wit of it. A Mormon Bible, or an Andrew Jackson Davis' revelation, could withstand more severe and abler assaults than these; how much more so the immortal volume which was given by the inspiration of God?</font></p> Your Enviromental Stance; What You Do?tag:atheistnexus.org,2010-09-09:2182797:Topic:9706682010-09-09T13:08:17.920Z§kürrýhttp://atheistnexus.org/profile/Skurry
Is there anything that you do or have a strong pet-peeve about when it comes to the environment? <br/><br/>I started paper recycling at the office after seeing how much wast was created. Every other Friday I drive boxes of paper over to the recycling plant on my way home. <br/><br/>I hate when companies use Styrofoam when there are cost effective, earth friendly alternatives.<br/><br/>
Is there anything that you do or have a strong pet-peeve about when it comes to the environment? <br/><br/>I started paper recycling at the office after seeing how much wast was created. Every other Friday I drive boxes of paper over to the recycling plant on my way home. <br/><br/>I hate when companies use Styrofoam when there are cost effective, earth friendly alternatives.<br/><br/>